My 3 novels: "The Story of S___;" "When Alice Met Her Favorite Movie Star in an Elevator," and "The Pop Star and the Child Prodigy." All 3 deal with aspects of autism spectrum disorders, tho the third doesn't mention that explicitly. All are e-books. The first 2 R also on paper. This blog has essays and poetry. My twitter: @AnnalisseMayer; Goodreads: https://lnkd.in/dfiqRxG; Linkedin: http://tinyurl.com/pz9x93u NB: Annalisse Mayer is a pseudonym

Friday, March 23, 2012

A mathematical definition of God

I put this on my AT&T website in 2001, but that website was taken down

A MATHEMATICAL DEFINITION OF GOD

11/11/01

This definition will require the reader to understand: What is a variable?What is a mathematical definition?What is a set?Also, I will use the symbol “≡”to mean “is defined as.”If you did not do much math, particularly no college math, you probably won’t understand the following discussion.

For each person there is a list of questions, unanswerable questions, God-defining questions.For each person, this list will be different.Some examples of these questions follow.

X­1≡ Why are we here?

X2≡ Why is there gravity?

X3≡ Why is it wrong to kill another person in cold blood?

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and so forth.In this list, each question is assigned a variable which represents the answer to the question.

I then define God as follows:

GOD ≡ {X1, X2, X3, …}

I believe that under this definition no one can say that GOD does not exist, nor that GOD is more than one thing.

These are interesting questions, which merit much discussion; however, I do not propose any answers to those questions.I only put forth this basic definition, so that we may stop arguing about whether GOD exists and rather discuss what we think GOD is like, which I find much more interesting.

[1] It is interesting that in one Supreme Court case, the Court defined religion as belief in a Supreme Being, but that really begs the question.What does one mean by a “being?”